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Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…modern and free. And this negative image of ‘Muslim exceptionalism’ also exists among extreme Copts in Egypt and the Hindu right in India. Google-ocracy But two years into the second decade of the 21st century we’re seeing a difference, not only in the assault on Islam, but in the Muslim response to that assault. The difference between today and yesterday, between the Muhammad video and Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, is the rapidity and ubiquity of im…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…ce of Muslims” ignites protests in the Muslim world setting deep divisions between interfaith communities and liberal and orthodox Muslims. 3. Moro Islamic Liberation front and Phillippine government Sign Peace Accord regarding the four-decade conflict, which has cost over 150,000 lives. 4. Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Al-Nahda in Tunisia Claim Victories in post-Arab Spring elections to establish new governments and constitutions. 5. Bahrain C…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…, mainstream appeals to “interfaith cooperation” often have functioned to excuse an exceptionalist ideology that deepens ruts in a two-tiered legal system and sanctions US military presence abroad. But if we do critically engage contemporary interfaith rhetoric, we will have accessed—and maybe even begun to influence and redirect—a powerful rhetorical tool for animating transformative social and political action. For better or for worse, interfait…

What Romney Didn’t Tell You about Mormonism at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…t as it was virtually missing from his campaign biography, there was, for example, no mention at the convention of what is probably the defining story of Mormon peoplehood—the exodus of Mormon pioneers (Romney’s ancestors among them), so readily translatable into an American story about the importance of common dreams, sacrifice, and the desire to start fresh. Of course, it’s a story that carries with it all the prejudices and curiosities our fait…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…ovement, people who’ve been directly affected by legislatures’ refusal to expand Medicaid in the South are exercising their constitutionally protected right to instruct their legislators. At the same time democracy is attacked by the Court, it is getting born again in the state house and in the streets. We know from experience that when fusion coalitions build a Movement that sticks together, no amount of money can stop us. Along with many others,…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…from Iraq and Syria, “where ISIS militants are targeting or killing homosexuals.” Afghanistan: Petition Calls for Legal Protections for Religious, Sexual Minorities A change.org petition is calling for changes in the laws of Afghanistan to protect the rights of both apostate (defined by petition organizers as “agnostic, atheist, freethinker, humanist, skeptic”) and LGBTIQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexual, queer, asexual) Afghans…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…m toward a more broad-spectrum approach. New partnerships are taking shape between experts and government officials. What to make of these developments? First, these programs are the latest installment in a long history of US interventions in religious and political fields abroad. Second, the CVE agenda assumes that religion is the “cause” of various political outcomes, both good and bad. It is the job of the state, and other international authori…

Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians

By Bradley Onishi

…ds. It didn’t matter, I told myself, if hundreds or even thousands died in Afghanistan, or if tax cuts would hurt the most vulnerable, or if stem cell research could save lives. There was always the trump card: How could I vote for someone who would allow millions of “unborn babies” to die? Bush’s second term coincided with my deconversion from evangelicalism. By 2004, I began openly questioning my church elders on matters related to biblical inte…

The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…tendency to write softball pieces on evangelicals that either downplay or excuse their extremism. With respect to the “fake Christian” tendency, dismissing anti-democratic and bigoted believers from “real” Christianity is a convenient deflection tactic that serves to absolve more liberal Christians from the necessary work of grappling seriously with the ways in which they benefit from, and are complicit in, historical and contemporary Christian he…